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Materia Medica

Magnesium Muriaticum

Muriate of Magnesia
16 sectionsBoericke · 16

Essence

Prologue
Boericke

Muriate of Magnesia (MAGNESIA MURIATICA)

  • A liver remedy with pronounced characteristic constipation.
  • Chronic liver affections with tenderness and pain, extending to spine and epigastrium, worse after food.
  • Especially adapted to diseases of women, with a long history of indigestion and uterine disease; children who cannot digest milk.
  • Evil effects of sea bathing.
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Modalities

Modalities
Boericke
Worse
immediately after eating, lying on right side: from sea bathing. Better, from pressure, motion: open air, except headache

Head

Head
Boericke

Sensitive to noise; bursting headache; worse, motion, open air; better, pressure, and wrapping up warmly (Sil; Stront). Much sweating of head (Calc, Sil). Facial neuralgia pains, dull, aching, worse damp weather, slightest draft, better pressure heat.

Nose

Nose
Boericke
  • Nostrils ulcerated, Coryza.
  • Nose stopped and fluent.
  • Loss of smell and taste, following catarrh.
  • Cannot lie down.
  • Must breathe through mouth.

Mouth

Mouth
Boericke
  • Blisters on lips.
  • Gums swollen, bleed easily.
  • Tongue feels burnt and scalded.
  • Throat dry, with hoarseness.

Stomach

Stomach
Boericke
  • Appetite poor, had taste in mouth.
  • Eructations like rotten eggs.
  • Continued rising of while froth into mouth Cannot digest milk.
  • Urine can be passed only by pressing abdominal muscles.

Abdomen

Abdomen
Boericke
  • Pressing pain in liver; worse lying on right side.
  • Liver enlarged with bloating of abdomen; yellow tongue.
  • Congenital scrotal hernia.
  • Must use abdominal muscles to enable him to urinate.

Urinary

Urine
Boericke

Urine difficult to void. Bladder can only be emptied by straining and pressure.

Female

Female
Boericke
  • Menses black, clotted.
  • Pain in back and thighs.
  • Metrorrhagia; worse at night.
  • Great excitement at every period.
  • Leucorrhoea with every stool and after exercise.
  • Tinea ciliaris, eruptions in face and forehead worse before menses.

Chest

Heart
Boericke

Palpitation and cardiac pain while sitting; better by moving about (Gels). Functional cardiac affections with liver enlargement.

Extremities

Extremities
Boericke

Pain in back and hips; in arms and legs. Arms "Go to sleep" when waking in morning.

Sleep

Sleep
Boericke

Sleep during day; restless at night on account of heat and shock: anxious dreams.

Relations

Relationship
Boericke

Antidotes: Camph; Cham.

Compare: Nat m; Puls; Sep; Amm m; Nasturtium equaticum -Water-cress--(useful in scorbutic affections and constipation, related to strictures of urinary apparatus; supposed to be aphrodisiacal in its action. Is also antidotal to tobacco narcosis and sedative in neurotic affections, neurasthenia, hysteria. Cirrhosis of liver and dropsy).

Posology

Dose
Boericke

5 drops of tincture. Third to 200th potency.

Classical Posology

Acute
  • 30C or 200C · repeat every 1–4 h depending on intensity
  • Stop on improvement · reassess in 24–48 h
  • For sensitive / elderly / paediatric: prefer LM1 or 30C
Constitutional
  • 200C or 1M single dose · wait 4 weeks
  • Alternative: LM1 daily × 10 days · ascend on retest
  • Hering's-Law follow-up adapts the next script
Citations: Organon §246 (interval / repetition) · §161 (plussed water) · §282 (LM ascension) · Kent on selection · Vithoulkas on second prescription. Open Repertify for the case-specific dose with the rule cited inline.

Additional notes

Bowels
Boericke

Constipation of infants during dentition; only passing small quantity; stools knotty, like sheep's dung, crumbling at verge of anus. Painful smarting haemorrhoids.

Respiration
Boericke

Spasmodic dry cough; worse forepart of night, with burning and sore chest.

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